Sentences with phrase «legal fees cut»

Legal fees cut into Handley's winnings, and tensions surrounding the lawsuit poisoned the workplace.

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Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

Only an infantile lawyer like Okudzeto Ablakwa would refuse to cut his losses as I did when he knows that governments in Ghana do not pay for any fees associated with filing and prosecuting civil cases except legal costs, damages, and other awards.

He has cut a quarter of the legal aid budget, set court and tribunal fees at unaffordable levels, and exposed claimants to eye - watering costs bills that wealthy defendants often run up.

Lawyers have been meeting to decide whether to follow Liverpool's lead and refuse to do any legal aid work after July 1st, when the next cut in fees come into force.

In a classic case of divide and rule, the government recently chose not to slash fees for Crown Court advocacy, while at the same time imposing a second tranche of 8.75 % cuts on solicitors» criminal legal aid fees.

It is unclear if Gove meant to include solicitors in the phrase «representatives of the profession overall», but the fact they were not explicitly mentioned suggests he has no plans to backtrack on cuts to legal aid fees.

Over 100 barristers and solicitors met to discuss cuts to legal aid fees.

Government plans set for April will cut # 220 million from the # 2 billion annual legal aid budget, predominantly through a 30 % reduction in fees for complex, high - cost cases and an 18 % cut in fees for other crown court work.

With the problems with the Pearson tests, the state's bogus VAM (value added measure), the setting of cut scores, and now the data being undermined by opt out no school district should have to pay the legal fees to try to fire someone under Cuomo's silly evaluation system!

Testifying at Silver's corruption trial Tuesday, Witkoff said he was kept in the dark about the fact that the politico was allegedly collecting a cut of legal fees from his development firm.

Over the past few years, cuts to legal aid and changes to lawyers» fees have made it harder for alleged victims of human rights abuses by UK - linked companies to have their cases heard in UK courts.

SILVER received a cut from the legal fees amounting to nearly $ 700,000.

The doctor, a cancer researcher, then referred lucrative asbestos cases to a law firm, Weitz & Luxenberg, which gave Silver a cut of the legal fees.

Sheldon Silver had a big incentive for using his political weight as Assembly speaker to funnel asbestos victims to the Weitz & Luxenberg law firm — he got a one - third cut of their legal fees just for making the referrals.

You must also pay legal, appraisal and administrative fees as the lenders in the city try to cut costs as much as possible.

Competing on price means going toe - to - toe with law firms and alternative legal service providers that are offering services at cut - rate fees.

Two leading advisors to major law firms predicted a declining demand for legal services, a 15 % drop in net income from 2008, the inability to raise rates, additional layoffs, salary freezes and cost cutting, heavier fee discounting, expenses rising faster than revenues — and a long wait for better times.

The Law Society has launched a legal challenge against proposed cuts to fees paid to criminal defence lawyers.

The repeated cuts to criminal legal aid since then add up to an overall fall in fees of more than 40 % in real terms since 2007.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) increased the proportion of funding it spends on legal fees by 31 % between 2009 and 2012, despite the agency's overall budget being cut by more than a fifth in that time.

While flat fee and other non-hourly arrangements have been commonplace in cut - and - dried legal areas like tax and estate planning, they're becoming more common across the practice areas of «Main Street» firms and attorneys.

Robin Murray, former vice-chair of the Criminal Law Solicitors Association, wrote for the Gazette about «fighting fee cuts», calling on the legal profession to unite and fight for its survival.

The Law Society Gazette reported that the Lord Chancellor is willing to drop the second 8.75 % fee cut for criminal legal aid — with strings.

Non Circle of Legal Trust members can still attend the seminar for a fee, but they will not be invited to the «Mastermind Meetings» that are held off schedule during the convention, where we meet and potentially discuss our own secrets and other advanced, cutting edge ideas that are brewing up over at the major search engine corporations.

Criminal legal aid: Criminal barristers in England and Wales have voted in favour of action in response to changes to the way in which criminal legal aid work by advocates is remunerated under the Advocates» Graduated Fee Scheme (AGFS), which comes into force on 1 April 2018, and will result in a significant overall cut in fees.

Armed with the knowledge of how little law firms might pay for offshore work, corporations can use the threat of cutting them out and sending legal tasks overseas on their own to force law firms to reduce fees.

The Bench FZE's creative business model that helps cut legal costs and gives lawyers a greater share of client fees saw it grab the innovation award title.

For example, are you using free search alternatives to cut down on legal research fees?

The basis of negligence and the test in the Compensation Act 2006, s 1 may well — like «reasonable practicability» above — achieve this ably, but perhaps the reality of what these legal tests mean on the ground is not cutting through media coverage of no win no fee or the ever - present advertising for injury claims.

The MoJ is also proposing that fees paid to advocates appointed by the court to cross-examine victims of abuse will be cut from private to legal aid rates.

The Government has announced its intention to press ahead with plans to dramatically reduce the number of legal aid contracts allowing criminal defence firms to represent suspects in the police station, while also cutting fees by a further 8.75 %.

Unlike most other law firms, who will charge a «success fee» of up to 25 per cent of your compensation, we will never take a cut - instead, you will receive 100 per cent of the compensation, as well as free legal guidance and support throughout the claims process as part of your union scheme.

As lawyers, in recent years we have seen first hand the devastating impact of legal aid cuts and vastly increased court fees on the ability of ordinary people, including our often vulnerable clients, to obtain justice.

This has become more and more of a consideration since the legal aid cut backs and the development of fixed fee private services.

The meeting took place against the backdrop of the uproar concerning further cuts to the legal aid fees paid to practitioners following the recent additions to the Advocates» Graduated Fee Scheme («AGFS»), a matter which naturally made its way into the conversation through constructive questions and statements.

The government claims the tribunal, planned for launch in 2013 or 2014, will cut legal fees and travel costs for parties.

Despite current concerns with legal aid fee cuts and competitive tendering, criminal lawyers accounted for only 7 % of calls.

The other was that many could not afford to hire a lawyer for their smaller deals, because the legal fees would significantly cut into whatever they might make on the deal.

The high - end transaction will need full service, but the smaller client, in or outside urban centres, may want to rely on something cheaper — whether or not consciously sacrificing the depth or subtlety that a traditional legal education allows a real lawyer to offer (whether he or she does or not, in a fee - cutting pratical world.)

A judicial review has been launched against Ministry of Justice (MoJ) cuts to legal aid fees for Crown Court cases with heavy workloads, such as terror, fraud and serious historic sex cases.

What is fundamentally different between the implementation of Woolf and Jackson is that the reforms in the Woolf era provided a cut in access for claimants through legal aid but greater privately funded access through conditional fees.

The manner in which the Labour Government dealt with the cut in legal aid was to develop further the availability of conditional fees.

The financial woes of legal aid firms have been well documented in NLJ: criminal defence firms haven't had an increase in fees for 20 years and in 2014 had to endure an 8.75 % cut; and most social welfare law and publicly - funded family legal work was wiped out by the 2013 LASPO cuts.

Between July and August 2011 the Government carried out an extremely limited consultation on cutting the fees which are paid to Law Firms and Not for Profits for carrying out legal aid work.

«What they've done to legal aid for solicitors is far worse than what they've done to the Bar,» he adds, pointing to the recent cuts to the litigators» graduated fee scheme, which cut the fees for the bigger cases on which firms had relied to make their money by 40 per cent.

In his article, Hamblett reports on a hearing held by Judge Lewis Kaplan, SDNY, on whether a U.S. Attorney improperly coerced KPMG to cut off legal fees for employees and partners who refused to cooperate with an investigation into allegedly illegal tax shelters.

The U.S. Attorney's office has insisted that KPMG chose to cut off payment of legal fees on its own, without pressure from the government, but the Judge apparently did not buy that explanation.

But as Pam Smith of Legal Press writes here, that's the scenario in Maughan v. Google, where Justice Miriam Vogel argued that the lower court judge erred in cutting Google's request for attorney fees after prevailing on an anti-SLAPP (strategic litigation against public participation) motion.

Junior criminal counsel, in particular, have been hard hit by cuts to legal aid fees.